Monday, August 29, 2016

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Star Trek Beyond was okay, the third best in a series of three (so far.) Gotta love Idris Elba's turn as Krall. The abronath was a cute MacGuffin, this was after seeing the ultimate MacGuffin movie: The Maltese Falcon.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Maltese Falcon available on-demand. I've seen it countless times but keep going back. The book has an interesting side-trip of no value to the plot except the insights it gives to Sam Spade: referred to as The Flitcraft Parable.

"The life he knew was a clean, orderly, sane, responsible affair. Now a falling beam had shown him that life was fundamentally none of these things. He, the good citizen-husband-father, could be wiped out between office and restaurant by the accident of a falling beam. He knew then that men died at haphazard like that, and lived only while blind chance spared them."

Bush and Stockton. Where Miles Archer was shot.

More specific: Burrit Alley, just off Bush Street above the Stockton Tunnel.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Queens distribution. Arrived at 11:00 a.m. and only about 25 people ahead of me.

Lots of terrific lines and language. My English teacher cousin told me the play was written around the same time as Hamlet and Twelfth Night. Joyce Carol Oates thinks Troilus and Cressida is a play that is underrated.

The play was great. Bleak and fascinating. John Glover (Pandarus),Corey Stoll (Ulysses) and Ismenia Mendes (Cressida) were outstanding. The entire cast was first rate.

Monday, August 8, 2016

Saturday, August 6, 2016

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on-demand. Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez remains an outstanding character:
...wanted in 14 counties of this state, the condemned is found guilty of the crimes of murder, armed robbery of citizens, state banks and post offices, the theft of sacred objects, arson in a state prison, perjury, bigamy, deserting his wife and children, inciting prostitution, kidnapping, extortion, receiving stolen goods, selling stolen goods, passing counterfeit money, and, contrary to the laws of this state, the condemned is guilty of using marked cards...

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

In professional wrestling, kayfabe /ˈkeɪfeɪb/ is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true," specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not of a staged or pre-determined nature of any kind.